Clarissa on “The Guardian: 100 best novels written in English”, a list by TheBookworm on TheLysts.
Details
Author
Samuel Richardson
Year
1748
Synopsis
Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart.”
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